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cartilage

noun as in bone

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Then, earlier this year, she underwent surgery on her wrist to repair damaged cartilage and bone from overuse and small, repetitive traumas.

The bonus bones are part of the un-fused road map of an adult skeleton, and contain gaps of cartilage that allow for extra flexibility and growth potential.

Sharks’ bodies are made of mostly cartilage, which doesn’t tend to fossilize.

The frayed tendons and thinning cartilage, and the time and energy it takes to rehab them, can limit training, ultimately hurting performance.

That length of run temporarily compresses your cartilage, so greater loads on your knee should lead to greater squeezing of the cartilage.

Cartilage in his left knee tore, and everything changed for both Webber and the Kings.

A hole developed, which had actually been caused by a breaking of a band of cartilage at the front of his hip joint.

If inclined to be vicious, the bulls should have rings thrust through the cartilage of their nose when young.

Bone would prove too unyielding, but cartilage, or gristle, meets the case exactly.

Shows the thyroid cartilage above and the cricoid below both viewed from the side.

It is situated below the thyroid cartilage, with which it is connected by a membrane, the crico-thyroid.

It was a bone, as large as a finger, passed through the cartilage.

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cartilage, such as: bony process, ossein, and osseous matter.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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